The Arthur Ashe Legacy: Overview
From offering scholarships and internships to current students who exemplify Ashe’s values to conducting an international oral history project that highlights his enormous impact and showcases lessons for today, we are dedicated to honoring the tennis and humanitarian great’s legacy with substantive actions for today’s students and scholars.
Patricia Turner, Ph.D.
Director, Arthur Ashe Legacy; Professor of African American Studies; Professor of World Arts, Culture and Dance
Funding Initiatives
The Arthur Ashe Legacy is made possible by private support towards four key pillars: education, preservation, and history, and scholarship.
Education
Arthur Ashe’s legacy goes far beyond his historic win at the inaugural US Open Championship in 1968 when he became the first (and so far, the only) African- American man to raise the trophy. Following his brilliant tennis career, Ashe devoted his life to social justice, civil rights, health, and—arguably the most important to him—education.
Preservation
The Arthur Ashe Learning Center (AALC) website was dedicated to providing a unique multimedia resource for understanding and promoting the legacy and values embodied in the life and work of Arthur Ashe as a conscious leader, humanitarian, educator, and athlete.
History
The Arthur Ashe Legacy Funds’ Purpose Served: An Oral History of the Exemplary Life of Arthur Ashe, 1943-1993 is an oral history series documenting stories from Ashe’s colleagues, associates, family and friends. The series not only touches upon epic developments in tennis, but also the many significant historical milestones that parallel his life, including the Civil Rights and Women’s Movements; the Vietnam War; the fall of apartheid in South Africa, and the AIDS/HIV crisis.
Scholarship
The UCLA Arthur Ashe Jr. Scholarship provides financial assistance to students who exemplify the attributes, values, commitment to service, and pioneering spirit of Arthur Ashe. Awardees are selected by the Scholarship Committee.
Volunteers at the U.S. Open
THANK YOU to the nearly 100 volunteers at this year’s Arthur Ashe Legacy Booth at the U.S. Open. The generous gift of your time and energy allows us to continue to promote Ashe’s life and values at the tournament where he made history over 50 years ago.
Our Volunteers
| Gay Abel-Bey |
| Diane Birnholz |
| Jeffry Brown |
| Eduardo Chacana |
| Bruno Chafe |
| Arabelle Chafe |
| Naz Chafe |
| Nadia Chafieian |
| Michael Chang |
| Margaret Conneely |
| Deborah Creighton |
| Marcelo Delmar |
| Gavin Dinning |
| Nathan Dinning |
| Mark Dinning |
| Douglas Do |
| Maria Dominguez |
| Linda Dragas |
| Hoang Duong |
| Mahir Eusufzai |
| Aidel Ezagui |
| Robyn Fishman |
| Margot Foley |
| Kevin Fong |
| Mary Francoeur |
| Sandra French |
| Alison Golder |
| Charles Haghighat |
| Shahram Haghighat |
| Sabrina Haghighat |
| Judy Hernandez |
| Erika Hillstead |
| Alexander Hu |
| Emily Isakari |
| Patricia James |
| Dana James |
| Kristina Joyas |
| Francesca Kruk |
| Christopher Kwok |
| John Lampl |
| Jacob Lee |
| Heather Lee |
| Jacob Lee |
| Kathy Licursi |
| Galit Lopatin Bordereau |
| Godfrey Louie |
| Catherine Macdonald |
| Ben Macdonald |
| Alexander Macdonald |
| Henry Macdonald |
| Luke Magargee |
| Mark Mariak |
| John McDonald |
| Sabin Motwani |
| Kristina Nicholas |
| Mike Oneal |
| Katherin Park |
| Meghan Peters |
| Sharla Reep |
| Douglas Roberts |
| Maggie Rose |
| Ellen Shapiro |
| Ashish Sharma |
| Jenny Sheng |
| Cecil Shepherd |
| Jerry Shi |
| Sang Silano |
| Emilia Silano |
| Shelby Slauer |
| Ashley Smith |
| Tanu Srivastava |
| James Stark |
| Kevin Tan |
| Robert Thye |
| Victor Villegas |
| Kristine Werlinich |
| Jordan Zar |
Partnership for the Future
The Arthur Ashe Legacy Fund at UCLA is in its second year of partnership with Rowing Blazers, a boutique clothing brand famous for their apparel collaborations and authenticity. In July 2022, they launched an online retail Ashe brand with a percentage of ongoing proceeds to benefit the work of the Ashe Legacy fund. All merchandise at the AA Legacy U.S. Open booth is generously provided by Rowing Blazers from their Ashe collection, with all proceeds benefiting the Arthur Ashe Legacy Fund at UCLA. To explore the full Ashe apparel line, visit arthurashe.com.
Meet the Artists
The Arthur Ashe Legacy booth at the U.S. Open is proud to feature exclusive art (seen below) benefitting the Arthur Ashe Legacy at UCLA.
About the artists:
New York Artist Sonia O’Mara is a graduate of UCLA, as well as the National Academy of Fine Arts in New York, and holds a Master’s degree from NYU. Her work has been displayed in various galleries both in New York and her home state of California. www.soniaomara.com
Jennifer Sterling (designer, animator, artist) has work in the permanent collections of The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Library of Congress, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Museum Fur Kunst Und Gewerbe, Hamburg and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Graphis Magazine named her “One of the Top Ten Designers in the World.” USA GD Magazine named her one of the “Twelve Designers to Change Design into the Millennium”. jennifersterlingdesign.com